ANTHRPOOLOGY. 699 
The stone is of an oval form, smoothly finished upon the surface, 
and of as perfect contour as if turned in a lathe. Its dimen- 
sions are 3% inches in length and 23 inches in thickness. The 
material is a silicious sandstone of a greenish clay-drab color and 
of fine grain. The sculptures are mostly in bas-relief, upon a 
ground sunk below the surface of the stone and of a higher grade 
of art than usual in Indian workmanship. It is difficult to con- 
Fig. 141. 
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ceive that such work could be done without the aid of metal tools. 
A hole was drilled through the longest diameter which tapered 
_'niformly from 3 of an inch at the larger end to 3 at the smaller, 
the use of which was probably the same as in the class of stones 
‘oy as “ gorgets,” to which we should refer it. Around the 
à erture at each end was a border of points like a star, as will be 
Seen by figure 139, 3 
